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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iokx.comwww.kinetica.comravendb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicode.kx.comdocs.kinetica.comravendb.net/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKineticaHibernating RhinosSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220101992
Current release3.6, May 20187.1, August 20215.4, July 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC, C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodKdbKineticaRavenDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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